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Calendar muddle
This resource gives ideas on how to talk about the calendar and when events happen. It gives examples of sentence starters, activities, vocabulary and connections to other areas of mathematics and everyday life.
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| Year level(s) | Foundation, Year 1 |
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| Audience | Teacher, Parent or carer |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Content knowledge, Parent friendly research, Parent guide to maths |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning |
| Keywords | calendar, day, week, event, when, before, after, timetable |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement, Build understanding, Apply understanding |
| Topics | Time |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9MFM02
Sequence days of the week and times of the day including morning, lunchtime, afternoon and night time, and connect them to familiar events and actions
AC9M1M03
Describe the duration and sequence of events using years, months, weeks, days and hours |
| Numeracy progression |
Measuring time (P1, P2)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | NRICH |
| Copyright | © 1997-2021 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material. |
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